“I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?” HumansTwoIndividualSidesHuman BeingsPassionateExtremesViolentBrutalBeing ThereTwo Extremes Author:Jane Goodall
“I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.” ThinkingKindGuyLanguageInternetViolent Author:Karin Slaughter
“Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.” PeopleWorldStillsSeemsStupidSelfishViolentGood People Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these conversations: [Barack] Obama is black so that means this, that things are better, or it means that you voted for him because he's black.” KnowsMeanHas BeensStillsCountryBlackConversationConstantViolentBarackFrustratedReminders Author:Paul Beatty
“The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.” LightCausesPrayerDarknessDangerousBehaviorTrainingOrdinaryShiningThreatResponseViolentPriestsRitualExposedBeamSanctityExorcismExorcistBeams Of Light Author:Gabriele Amorth
“I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.” HateI HateActressesViolentPretendingViolent Movies Author:Robert Englund
“There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.” ThinkingLongTogetherLevelsHorrorLong TimeIntellectualDepthViolentNightmareIngredientsExploitsSpicesPrimalSymbolismMenus Author:Robert Englund
“There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.” PeopleWayMadeHumanityRealizingViewsEffortMinesLoyaltyViolentAbandonedLoved OnesSplitsBetrayedBehalfAcquaintanceRotten Author:Jim Goad
“In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.” ThinkingWayViolentMalicious Author:Jim Goad
“You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?” NeedsKindLittlesI CanSongCatAddAppreciationViolentInstanceWitnessRacistWorthlessHatefulMaking UpGoofyKittiesKitty Cat Author:Jim Goad
“Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.” WorldSometimesOrderJusticeGreaterViolent Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.” Has BeensMotivationValuesFatherPartyPrinciplesClearFocusEconomicReturnFinancialViolentTeaRacistRestraintFoundingTea PartyHomophobic Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century.” CountryWealthCenturyResourcesMiseryPopulationViolentWealthyConfrontationColombia Author:Noam Chomsky
“Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.” CountryCitizensRefuseCriminalsViolentDespiteOur CountryAliensIllegalJailAmerican CitizensIllegal AliensViolent Criminals Author:Matt Salmon
“Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.” PeopleMeanAmericaCommonStreetsLike YouShadowPrisonCriminalsViolentCommon SenseReleaseCellsIllegalJailPrison CellsRubricsViolent Criminals Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.” YearsHas BeensCountryGovernmentAmericaEffectsMilitaryWillingViolentLatinFascismDictatorshipTolerateAsiaLatin America Author:Allan Nairn
“In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.” IfsNeedsDoeBigsDesireSportsTalkingViolentEvidentFervor Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.” IfsKnowsFeelsStillsStatesMightMotherBlackWeekSouthViolentBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Pam Grier
“I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.” MenMadeBookSchoolWhiteMistakeTeachingViolentPatriotWhite ManMichiganHistory BooksMasonsNon Violent Author:Malcolm X
“Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.” PeopleMenMatterEnoughRunningBlackWhiteViolenceNo Matter WhatBraveViolentDoctrineBlack PeopleOddsHonorableWhite ManMuhammadAdvocatingElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.” IfsMenTryingCausesStruggleViolentInnocentInsaneNecksCall MeRope Author:Malcolm X
“The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.” IfsShouldLongGovernmentLawViolenceCrimeProtectResponsibleViolent Author:Malcolm X
“I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.” ThinkingDoeRealityCultureSocialViolentEntertainingPsychics Author:Leonard Cohen
“We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.” ThinkingStuffConditionsTelevisionPassionateInsightViolentHungryPassionate Life Author:Leonard Cohen
“Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.” Has BeensCultureWesternViolentWestern Culture Author:Leonard Cohen
“Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.” SeemsSufferingViolent Author:Leonard Cohen
“[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.” KnowsGrewGrew UpViolentTendenciesBarackExposedHawaiiSegregationCrowJim Crow Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” WellsBookWarInterestingKnownRecordsEventsRevolutionIraqViolentInstanceHistorianAfghanistanWell KnownVery InterestingAmerican RevolutionGuerrillasInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.” ThinkingWantEarthWaterRecordsSpecialCenturyPoetWake UpMedicineCleanInsightAccessViolentEtcDictatorship20th CenturyFascistsGrotesqueGreat PoetClean WaterOdesGood RecordsLenin And Stalin Author:Robert Hass
“We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.” EnoughViolentIntoleranceGlobesHopelessnessExtremismSectarianism Author:Barack Obama
“It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.” WorldMindWarYoungThis WorldSourceFundamentalsCorruptionViolentIdeologyCivilizedCompactYoung Minds Author:Barack Obama
“We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like anyone violent or carrying a gun or anything like that. But I won't know if they disagree with me unless they decide to heckle.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantKindHateCrimeTrumpGunViolentDisagreeSupporterHate CrimeSteroid Author:Jen Kirkman
“Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.” MenFacesTurnsGivenEnemyViolentCheeksRobbingDefenselessTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.” ActionPoliticalInvolvedPoliticianExerciseBenefitsViolentResistanceMaturePolitical SystemsPolitical Action Author:Malcolm X
“Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.” PeopleWantInvolvedActivityViolentVietnam Author:Nat Hentoff
“The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.” MatterFactsRunningClassConsciousEuropeLaborViolentDedicated Author:Noam Chomsky
“What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to see" - is so violent. I'm not even talking about the content. I'm talking about the way in which it's cut.” WayChildrenAbleTalkingCuttingNewsOur ChildrenViolentSupposed To BeBotherCinemaFoxesFox News Author:Tilda Swinton
“I think that many of the mobilizations against the wars waged by the US and its allies since 2001 have been non-violent and massive. We have seen them throughout European capitals and in the US, and in many other parts of the world as well. So it is not only imaginable, but already actual.” ThinkingWorldWellsHas BeensWarViolentMassiveAlliesNon ViolentMobilization Author:Judith Butler
“Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis".” IfsWantWellsStatesInvolvedDestructionBasesIsraelViolentZionist Author:Judith Butler
“We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?” StatesNationsStandingViolentIntimateThrowingDnaInconsequentialThrowing AwayViolent Acts Author:Patricia Arquette
“In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.” KindActionMilitaryDemocraticViolentDictatorshipProceduresArmenia Author:Garry Kasparov
“Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.” ChildrenPersonsLawSeriousDrugThreatViolentAggressiveUsersLaw EnforcementEnforcementHideousParanoidMethamphetamine Author:Dirk Kempthorne
“Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalUsedGamesSocialPartyDemocracyPlansViolentTraditionalUsed To BeRevolutionaryAlsCategoriesEgyptianClassificationNon ViolentPolitical Games Author:Tariq Ramadan
“More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.” CountryUseNaturalPovertyDemocracyViolenceMilitaryWillingDegreesResourcesFemaleAccessViolentNatural ResourcesIndicators Author:Gloria Steinem
“A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.” CultureRealizingNovelGrowing UpGrowingViolenceGrewGrew UpViolentRetrospectAberration Author:William Gibson
“I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.” WaySaidBeautifulFilmViolentComing OutThickSamuraiReally Deep Author:William Gibson
“We`re focused on physically securing the border. We`re focus on those who are coming to do us harm from terrorist states and things like that. That is our focus, and it`s on criminal aliens, people who are violent criminals who have not been deported.” PeopleStatesFocusFocusedHarmCriminalsTerroristViolentAliensBordersViolent Criminals Author:Paul Ryan
“I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.” WantKindLeftViolenceViolent Author:David Duke
“I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksLittlesStatesEnoughThreeLeftLevelsMistakeHalfFiveSixAverageCriminalsViolentRepeatsFive YearsMurdererMuggers Author:Charles Schumer